Educational Games: Design, Learning & Applications (Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1608766926 ISBN 13: 9781608766925

Publisher: Nova Science Publishers Inc, 2010

Synopsis

The pervasive use of games by students and their integration in formal education by a number of pioneer teachers creates a need for a different frame-of-mind to look at the learning experience offered by such innovative technology-enhanced learning experiences. Educational computer games are related to two disciplines, which are computer sciences (in particular, eLearning and related areas) and games development. A pattern-based design approach to overcome the problems and challenges of learning-games is proposed in this book. The aim is to awaken the learning-game community to approach learning-game design more structurally and to motivate them to communally create a theoretical and practical basis for learning-game design and game-based learning research. Furthermore, given the popularity of computer games and the educational and ethical problems they raise, we need a way of evaluating games. This book contributes to this task by articulating the epistemic, moral, and ethical aims of education and by applying these criteria to computer games.

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Product Description

The pervasive use of games by students and their integration in formal education by a number of teachers creates a need to look at the learning experience offered by such innovative technology-enhanced learning experiences. A pattern-based design approach to overcome the problems of learning-games is proposed in this book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Nova Science Publishers Inc
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1608766926
• ISBN 13: 9781608766925
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 385
• Editor: Edvardsen Frej, Kulle Halsten